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Ubisoft’s French division are being recommended a strike over the course of three days to resist the company’s mandated return to office policy.
The strike has been called to strike by the STJV, who had previously had a hand in the Spiders studio strike – for reference, workers went on the picket lines to protest unfair working conditions during the last stretch of Greedfall 2’s development.
The strike conditions are in response to the recent decision to call in all remote workers: “many of our colleagues have built or rebuilt their lives (family life, housing, parenthood, etc.) and simply cannot return to their previous working conditions … The consequences of [Ubisoft’s] decision will be the loss of our colleagues’ jobs, the disorganisation of many game projects, and the drastic increase in psychosocial risks for those who remain.”
Demands include a formal agreement on remote work, an immediate increase in all salaries, and the implementation of a “social dialogue” between management and staff.
Although Ubisoft Paris is not one of the studios focused on Assassin’s Creed Shadows or Star Wars: Outlaws, the two games that, as reported by Ubisoft itself, have landed the studio in financial troubles recently, the strike is going to pile even more pressure on management who will be fearing shareholder pushback. In light of investor takeover of Ubisoft, this strike couldn’t have landed at a worse time for the company.
Ubisoft Paris claims to have “nearly 1,000 employees” and that it is the “largest video game studio in France.” It goes on to say that its staff are one of the pillars of the studio’s quality. The “teams, who are key to [Ubisoft’s] success and to whom [Ubisoft] wish to give all the tools to carry out their missions in the best conditions.”
We have reached out to Ubisoft for comment, though it has not immediately replied.
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